Angela Schanelec continues her exploration with loose adaptations of classic texts...Schanelec is an incredible director of bodies in space: she is so attentive to how characters move and are placed within the frame and with respect to each other.

| Oct 5, 2024

A sudden event has far-reaching consequences in Music, this challenging, uneven, and downright confusing Oedipal tragedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 3, 2024

A candidate for what is now called “slow cinema” or, more aptly, “poetic cinema,” “Music” is unique, at times puzzling, and memorable.

| Aug 26, 2024

...Schanelec’s mostly dialogue free film is simply too nebulous to get a narrative grip on, instead a series of long, slow takes with very somber people where very little happens.

| Original Score: C | Aug 11, 2024

As lovely as it is obfuscating, a cinematic Rorschach blot that holds the audience at arm's length as much as it envelops us in its peculiar aural environment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2024

Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex inspired this intentional and affecting drama.

| Jul 5, 2024

In unfurling the story of a boy who becomes a killer, a lover, and a singer, the German director Angela Schanelec continues to move to her own inimitable beat.

| Jun 28, 2024

It is a daring and assured subversion of conventional film language that will likely infuriate certain viewers and reward others.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 28, 2024

Hope was never something that I associated with Schanelec’s typically dour films, yet here, from the darkness of a timeless tragedy emerges light.

| Jun 27, 2024

Those unfamiliar with the director’s penchant for narrative opacity might find Music falling on deaf ears. For those up for the challenge, there are splendid moments of visual poise to soak in.

| Original Score: 7.0/10 | Jun 26, 2024

With Music, Angela Schanelec tames entrenched aesthetic and narrative conventions to turn tragedy into caress and challenge into pleasure. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 1, 2024

Full of eternal silences, with disconnected actions and ellipses that are more complicated than complex throughout four indecipherable decades, Music takes off with five tedious minutes surrounding a car accident. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 1, 2024

Angela Schanelec creates a contemporary version of one of the best-known classical Greek myths, though she adds a hopeful message at the end of her feature. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 29, 2024

The rhythms in Music — the shift from one image to the next — make sense in ways that defy obvious explanation, much like the film itself.

| Oct 27, 2023

When you finish the film, there’s an immediate obligation to go back to it again. There will be many gaps in the understanding of what Schanelec wanted to tell.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 16, 2023

Once you let go of your altered expectations and allow Schanelec to take you where she wants to go, “Music” can be a very satisfying ride.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 12, 2023

This is the kind of knowledge that Music embraces: the sort that asks us to lose some things, to make space for someone else to come out of the blue -- someone, strangely, who can make us feel at home again in the world.

| Oct 5, 2023

A nearly silent film, simply titled Music, might be the most enigmatic offering from Schanelec. But its depiction of melancholy and fragility of human life is nevertheless so beautiful and timeless, I can't help tearing up by the end.

| Jun 10, 2023

"While Music at times seems more dream than film, it gets deep under your skin by virtue of the feelings it locates in the images and sound. (...) Music is slow and silent, but its depths welcome everyone who has longed for togetherness at all costs."

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 13, 2023

That makes Music timeless. Schanelec's latest work is the celebration of the transcendental nature of music and cinema. Once again, Schanelec proved to be the master of minimalist cinema.

| Mar 9, 2023